Thursday, June 7, 2018

Yoga Narasimha Perumal Temple, Narasingam, Yanaimalai – Inscriptions

Yoga Narasimha Perumal Temple, Narasingam, Yanaimalai
– Inscriptions

The
Temple has nine inscriptions. Of these, eight belong to the Pandya rulers and
the remaining one to Krishnadevaraya. The inscriptions at the temple are in
ancient Tamil, Brahmi and Vattezhuthu. There are two inscriptions of Srivallabha Pandya
(1101-1124 A.D.), which speak about the gifts made to the temple. There are
also inscriptions of later Pandyas and one of them, belonging to the rule
of Sundara Pandya, (1216-1238 A.D.) gives details about his conquest of
the Chola country.

Another
inscription says that land gifts were made at Iyakkimangalam village for
conducting the festival in the Anaimalai Temple. Later inscriptions are mostly
incomplete. Inscriptions in the cave temple say that Maran Kari, the minister
of the Pandya king, started the construction of the temple in 770 A.D., which
remained unfinished, either due to his death or due to some other calamity, and
was completed by his brother Maran Eyinan later. He also built the Muka
Mandapam and consecrated the temple.